Cheeky

If you have not stumbled upon this gem of a blog you must check it out Gregariouspeach. It's filled with the cutest baby bums, sweetest words, and the most cheeky smiles I've ever seen.

Happy Monday

It's a new week. I still can't believe where my life has taken me... blessed, that's the word I'm looking for.





xxoo Krystal

So Sooowwy

Dear Blog,

I know I've been neglecting you lately. Moving to San Francisco and getting ready for school to start has been a bit overwhelming. But there is good news!! School starts tomorrow, thus I'll have images coming out of my ears to post :D.

Until then...

One of my favorite photos from Steve McCurry


xxoo
Krystal

So sweet

Happy Monday

hope it made your day...It sure made mine!

xoxo Krystal

Gobble Gobble Gobble

Happy Turkey Day everyone!

I hope your day is filled with love, food, family and friends

oh and don't forget to overeat

I know I will ;)

xoxo

Krystal

sleep like this

I am fully aware that this video is a little dated, but I just love it so much.

Enjoy

Censorship

inspiration..

where to find it,

is this moving,

do people understand the way I think...?

can everyday be moving, touching, inspiring.

how do you get people to open there eyes and see life as it is, and be changed by it?

why do I always ask the complicated question's to which I know there is NO definitive answer, only hour upon hour long conversation filled with metaphor that causes me to think more, to dig deeper than the question itself.

every once and a while I'll find a piece that stops me,

I'll find a mind that intrigues me.

sad that this particular video and photo montage piece that curator Yasmina Reggad was asked to be removed from the Derby’s Guildhall gallery, as part of the Collectives Encounter project showing during the Format festival.

how do you censor life?

pardon the verbiage, but 'it is what it is.' life's not censored so how can art?

the same gallery had a series of shitty pictures(excuse the pun) 'pictures of shit,' that was not taken down.

so Im posting it, to some this may be controversial but at the end of the day it's still art. what makes this piece different from other nude pieces of work hung in galleries al over the world??

In my eyes this is a beautiful piece.

Full story here & council response here

A New Venture

I believe everything should start with an idea

walking outside and capturing the world as I know it is a wonderful thing. but lately i've been craving more, more meaning, more stories, more ooompphh. so I started doing some thinking, what would bring meaning to my subject & not just me..? how can I touch other's who see it? what format do I use, digital, film, of just a bit of both? anyyywhooo I went on a birthday lunch with my mother and my dear friend Mallory over the weekend and brought up the fact that I wanted to start a series, and it was like she read my mind (my mama that is).



to start off let me say that I've been struggling with the thought of, 'can a marriage sustain over 50+ year's anymore.' seeing as in my experience, not only in my life but others as well, people don't seem to have the same reverence for it as they once did, if it's not working, well get a new one. Horrible thought, but it is the awful truth of our generation more times than not. being the eternal optimist that I am, I still cling to the belief that love that span's a lifetime must still exist... please still exist.

this brings me back to my fab birthday lunch, my mother suggested that my new series could be based on old friends of her's, a married couple in there 80's. so for the next three months I'll be diving head first into a love that truly does exist, care to join me?


shakespeare once said," Journeys end in lovers meeting." for Felice & Bob, that meeting took place over 64 years ago.

let the journey begin.

Pondering

just saw Julie & Julia, wonderful film. as I drove home from the theater I realized that this movie left me deep in thought, partly because my life is about to change in a monumental way, maybe I'm getting cold feet? everyone fear's the unknown right??
anyways here are a few of my thought's...

* I must live in europe for a portion of my life, MUST.
* what will my mark be? (You know, the one everyone want's to leave on this world, this life??)
* am I ok accepting and recognizing my own success without the validation of others?
* what's my story book ending?
* food is by far one of my best friends, food can make a bad day turn into sweet goodness.
* I need to get Julia Child's cook book ASAP.
* do I feed other people enough?
* I need to invest in more cooking items.
* am I living up to my full potential?
* will I be able to touch lives ? better yet, have I already?
* is moving to San Francisco going to change the course of my life as I know it? for those of you who don't know I'm moving up to San Francisco in a few months. a place where I know about ummmm Zero people! though this photography school is one of the best in the nation, which I am soooo lucky to be able to attend, still can't believe I got in !!! I find my self in a state of utter joy and slight panic. Far from everything I know and love, living in a BIG city for the first time, surrounded by fellow artist's.

what I do know is there is something in the act of 'creating' something that satisfies my very soul. I thank my lucky stars for the ability to 'see & create' with out it I'm not quite sure who I would be.

I think i'll take more pictures now.

the end

When you have more than a moment...

images copyright phillip toledano

Searching for inspiration, that liminal moment. Photographs that move me, that inspire me to be better. To be moved like this however... was unexpected.

Take a look, you wont be sorry. days with my father

P.S. (for those who couldn't figure it out ;)To scroll through the images just hold your mouse toward the bottom of the shots and a new one will pop up a bit, click on it...

Je T'Aime

"It always fascinates me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing."
from the film Two Days in Paris - a beautiful, poignant, and gorgeous summation of a seminal human moment.

A beautifully done film. The voice over gave fluid visual translation of what it feels like to be searching for the right word's, instead of it evading you, it comes to your mind with incredible smoothness and force.

Thought's

My good friend Kara and I went to see 'The Time Travelers Wife' the other day. I read the book about a million years ago and had completely forgotten what happened. It's definitely one of those movies that touches you, at one point in the movie the theater was silent except for the sniffles from almost everyone fighting back tears... but failing miserably. It just gets you, it was filled with that kind of love that's so real (aka not perfect), but you still can't live without it kinda love??

A must see, bring a tissue.

Pure Joy

Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. All the other tangible rewards will come as a result.

-- Maya Angelou

Photography is my passion, it's a way for me to show others exactly how I view this world. The way light falls, soft smiles on a child's face, sadness, tears, joy, the simple glances we give each other. I cherish those simple moments, details that most people neglect to notice. So I keep snap snap snapin away, because it makes me happy. 

Every once and a while though I wonder if people appreciate my work...If they feel the emotion that I attempt to portray in my photography. If I make one person smile my job is done... yet still I wonder who might be moved by my work? 

God said, ask and you shall receive.

"WOW!!! love your work. Very talented!! You need to come to Oklahoma and take some pics of your cousins...(hint..hint) :)"

-Lisa

Here's a message I got yesterday that brought me to tears.

"I love them! I think u have a true gift from God."

-Monica

xxoo Krystal

and Thank You.